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English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin quindecima (“15th”), from quindecim (“15”). In reference to 2-week periods, based upon the Roman and medieval practice of counting inclusively.
Noun
quindecim (plural quindecims)
- (historical) Synonym of quinzieme, a tax of one fifteenth (0.067%).
2019, Julia Boffey, Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle, page 71:In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots two aids and two quindecims, the which two aids did not extend over two quindecims.
- (chiefly Christianity, archaic) Synonym of quindene, the 14th day after a festival, the fortnight after a festival.
References
Latin
Etymology
From quīnque (“five”) + decem (“ten”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
quīndecim (indeclinable)
- fifteen; 15
- 77-79 AD, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, liber XIV, vii
- quindecim omnino generibus uvarum nominatis, tribus oleae, totidem pirorum, malo vero tantum Assyrio, ceteris omnibus neglectis
- "in all, fifteen varieties of the grape has he named, three of the olive, the same number of the pear, and the citron of Assyria, and has neglected the rest"
- (Regnum II)
- erant autem Sibae quindecim filii et viginti servi
- "Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants."
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian:
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- Gallo-Italic:
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- Insular Romance:
See also
References
- “quindecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quindecim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quindecim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to decree a public thanksgiving for fifteen days: supplicationem quindecim dierum decernere (Phil. 14. 14. 37)